A $100 million fund, earmarked for community projects targeting sustainable development, has been locked up for more than three years because of the government's failure to form a council to oversee its use.
Top officials have said it would be set up soon, possibly early in the new year, but so far key green groups and even some government units have been told nothing about it.
The fund is linked to the Council for Sustainable Development (CSD) - a body announced by Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa in his 1999 policy address that has yet to be established.
The council is envisaged as an adviser to the government on forming a blueprint for economic, social and environmental development.
In October, Chief Secretary Donald Tsang Yam-kuen indicated the council would be established soon and that the government remained committed to establishing such a forum under the accountability system.
Mr Tsang made the statement in the Legislative Council during a motion debate on sustainable development on October 23.